Democratic Erosion University Course Student Blog

Students enrolled in our course are encouraged to write for the course blog, and to read and comment on posts from students at other participating universities. The blog offers students the opportunity to analyze current events through the lens of the theory and case studies they engage with through the course.

These blogs reflect the views of the student authors, and not those of the Democratic Erosion Consortium.

Elections Without Democracy: The Case of Thailand

Thailand’s democracy is not dying by its absence, but by the ‘hollowing out’ of its electoral substance through judicial weaponization.

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Silencing the Bench: How Poland’s “Muzzle Law” Accelerates Democratic Erosion

Democracy depends on more than just elections: it requires strong independent institutions, specifically courts, that can check and balance political power. In Poland, a nation once praised for its post-communist democratic transition, it has now faced a systematic...
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What Does the United States Democracy Have in Store?

Democracy of the United States has fallen, and learning what is happening is importantly to try to stop it.

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